Word: representation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The scenery in the Russian drama is particularly significant, "continued Professor Pope, "because it plays a more integral part in producing the atmosphere of the piece. The stage set does not, in the Russian theatre, represent merely a locality for the action of the play, nor a more background for...
The seven new members to serve on the Committee on Education will bring fairly varied points of view to bear on the questions they will have to consider. The complete committee of ten will represent Harvard undergraduates as well as such a small group of students can. In choosing these...
"I am one of the oldest legitimate theatrical producers in the country. . . . This tax is one of the things that practically make spoken drama extinct. I think I know more about the theatre than Secretary Mellon does. . . . The movie show can be carried in a round tin can, the vaudeville...
What is needed at the moment is a new sense of balance and proportion. To represent these two important phases of college life in an unreal antagonism was the work of the thoughtless person who mailed the cards and has successfully hidden behind his anonymity.
In the second place, what a student sees of scholarship in some of those who claim to represent its glories is more likely to repel than attract him. The grind sitting at his elbow and the pedant standing on the lecture platform are poor ambassadors to the student from that...